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Category: Poverty

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Charity: It feels so good it hurts

August 6, 2017 Arthur Lieber Activism, Charity & Justice, Civil liberties, Democracy, Homelessness, Human Rights, Poverty Leave a comment

This week we have another heart-warming story from our St. Louis Community. A man named Jake Austin runs a special service, a Shower the

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Trump disappears poverty guidelines from Federal Register

January 25, 2017 Glenn Koenen Poverty Leave a comment

Late every January – as reliable as the buzzards returning to Hinckley, Ohio each March – the revised Poverty Guidelines are published in the

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It’s not surprising that now is the time that “Forgotten Americans” rose up

December 9, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Democracy, Democrats, Politics, Poverty, Republican Brain 5 comments

It should not surprise us that 2016 has been the year of the Trump voter. It could well have happened without Donald Trump. Just

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The social and political costs of the Rio Olympics

August 12, 2016 Chris Harden Business, Housing, International, Poverty, Sports Leave a comment

Throughout the coming weeks of sport and competition, keep in mind the cost Rio and Brazil are bearing to host us. More than 77,000 citizens

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Paul Ryan: When a Republican does not look like a demon to progressives

May 11, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Politics, Poverty, Republican Brain, Republicans One comment

Wouldn’t it be nice if all of our political stereotypes were affirmed with every individual? You know, for progressives it would be easy if

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Addressing hunger: Republicans say charity; Dems say government

January 31, 2016 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Charity & Justice, Community/Common good, Demographics/Polls, Homelessness, Poverty, Survey 3 comments

If charity was the answer to our problems, then there would be no homelessness in America, no poverty in general. We would have a

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The fizzling of The Population Bomb: China ends its one-child policy

October 29, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik International, Population growth, Poverty Leave a comment

Last night, I attended a presentation looking at trends in world population since biologist Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb in 1968, a best-selling

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Screw the poor: Not expanding Medicaid cost red states $2 billion in 2015

October 25, 2015 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Politics, Poverty, Republicans, States, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Squandering $2 billion dollars in essentially free money is not what anyone would call “fiscal conservatism.” But that’s exactly what the phony fiscal conservatives

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Americans are too charitable

September 9, 2015 Arthur Lieber Charity & Justice, Food, Homelessness, Poverty, Republicans Leave a comment

You can tell a lot about a society by what its citizens compliment themselves about. You might also learn a great deal about a

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You can be mean and still sound rational

August 10, 2015 Arthur Lieber 2016 Election, Campaigns, Charity & Justice, Media, Poverty, Republicans Leave a comment

A recent article published here on Occasional Planet stated that the Republican debates last Thursday night were not as much of a clown car

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